Influence of the host plant of the cassava mealybug Phenacoccus manihoti on life-history parameters of the predator Exochomus flaviventris

Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata

Volumn 95, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 209-212

  Le Ru B ^a   Mitsipa, A ^a  

^a IRD ORSTOM   (Congo)

Author keywords

Antibiosis; Coccinellidae; Pseudococcidae; Tritrophic interaction

Indexed keywords

COCCINELLIDAE; EXOCHOMUS; EXOCHOMUS FLAVIVENTRIS; MANIHOT ESCULENTA; PHENACOCCUS; PHENACOCCUS MANIHOTI; PSEUDOCOCCIDAE;

EID: 0034029142     PISSN: 00138703     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1570-7458.2000.00659.x     Document Type: Article

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